Topsy and Eva in Uncle Tom's Cabin Ailing Hope Fails
Eva sees heaven near as Top sy a wild slave girl scarred by flogging rebels against kindness. St Clare buys Top sy to prove African perversity but Eva’s love changes nothing as disease worsens. Eva dies and frees Tom while St Clare’s death upends plans to secure freedom. Marie then assumes control of the estate.
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Eva
Kingdom of Heaven
Mr. St. Clare
Ophelia
Topsy
Tom
Aunt Chloe
Uncle Tom
Marie
Gether
New Orleans
Miss Ophelia
Rosa
Simon Legree
Red River
George
Legree
Cassy
Degree
Mas'r
Sam
Mas’r. George
Mas
R. George
Heaven
Kintuck
Lee
Jackson
Jeb Stuart
A General Store Lesson and a Slavery Tale
A shopkeeper and customer discuss saving money on roofing materials revealing freight costs. The narrative shifts to a review of Uncle Tom at length, detailing Tom’s life under Simon Legree, his flogging, Cassy’s plot, Tom’s faith, and the escape plan, ending with Tom’s death and George Shelby’s failed attempt to rescue him.
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Tom
Chloe
George
Shelby
Mrs. Shelby
Missis
Fame and fury over slavery as Aunt Chloe mourns
A graphic scene shows George defending a Black man’s memory, Chloe’s sorrow over sale and freedom granted to slaves, and a call to action by Harriet Beecher Stowe. The excerpt ends with a religious warning as the era’s upheavals loom.
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America
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Massachusetts
New Hampshire
Vermont
Connecticut
Maine
New York
Ohio
Prairie States
Vision of justice and war memory in a turning tide
The passage invokes biblical justice against oppression and a warning of divine wrath on the cruel. It recalls wartime upheaval and the "long roll of the drums" as a century shifts. John Bright is quoted noting the end of a war shadow over the continent.
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Lem
John Bright
Forest Fund Allotments Set by Forest Supervisors
Administrative funds for eastern district national forests were allotted at Bozeman in a meeting of forest supervisors and assistants. Helena Forest Superintendent J. N. Templer announced the allocations for fire prevention roads and trails and recreational development. A western district meeting covering Montana and northern Idaho will follow at Missoula.
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Bozeman
J. N. Templer
Helena Forest
Montana
Idaho
Missoula
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Harriet Beecher
Stowe
The
Chicago Tribune
Pawley
Gener
Henry Silleck
Grantin
Jed Hopkins
General Mills, Inc
Kentucky
George Shelby
Mississippi
Philosopher
Shelbys
Church of Christ
Famous Magazine
Betty Crocker
United States
GoLp
Committee On Foods of the
American Medical Association
Washburn Crosby Company
Cope
General Mille, Inc
Minneapolis, Minn
NBC
E.S.T
C.S.T
Pacific Coast
Columbia System
Xhip'tion 2
Deas
Earth
S. C. Huseth
Optometrist and
Optician
Great Falls
Nlr
General Mills.ing
Gold Medal
U.S. A
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